For those with a sweet tooth, any dessert is always a joy. But cakes are always especially popular among people. No celebration can be complete without a sweet treat. And if decorated with all kinds of edible decorations, a congratulatory inscription, and birthday candles, then it becomes the main dish of a festive feast.

Let's talk a little about the benefits of cakes

There are no limits to the imagination of confectioners. You can decorate your holiday treat on any theme. Anniversary, personalized, wedding, children's, special purpose cakes - you can't count them all. You can not only treat dear guests with a cake, but also present it as a gift for a personal holiday. The original design of the confectionery product, taking into account the tastes of the hero of the occasion, will be especially appreciated by him.

However, holidays in life do not happen as often as we would like, but you can treat yourself to sweets every day. As you know, sweets can improve people's mood. Especially if the dessert is made from natural high-quality products. The reason for the improvement in well-being is the hormone serotonin, otherwise called the hormone of happiness. A positive reaction to sweets is explained by their high content of valuable amino acids that can provide the human body with energy, relieve stress and give positive emotions. Therefore, in order to give a worthy rebuff to life’s difficulties and troubles, you must certainly bring yourself joy by eating at least a little delicious cake.

The easiest way is to buy a finished product in a store, where there is always an abundance of confectionery products. But a homemade cake is much better and tastier.

Unfortunately, most culinary recipes are complex and lengthy, and there is not always enough time for cooking. So-called cold cakes come to the rescue - products that do not require heat treatment or complex manipulations. The basis of such dishes can be all kinds of cookies, crackers, and crackers. Corn flakes, marshmallows and semi-finished biscuit products are also suitable for the cake. The choice of the main product depends only on the taste of the sweet tooth.

Delicious "Hedgehog"

Hedgehog Cake (no bake) can serve as a classic example of a quick sweet treat. To create it you need very little time, plus the invention and imagination of the owner. Making a Hedgehog cake with your own hands is not difficult even for adult men with a sweet tooth. This treat will delight the kids too. This cute animal, the hero of many cartoons, is sure to evoke strong emotions in young children. You should definitely involve your assistants in the cooking process. Joint creative work in the kitchen contributes to the development of imagination in children, enriches them with new knowledge and adds life experience.

Peculiarity

You can read about how to make a Hedgehog cake in cookbooks. Although the cooking principle is described approximately the same everywhere. The only difference is in the ingredients and methods of decorating the product.

Option one. "Hedgehog" biscuit

The most delicious of all types is the Hedgehog cake, created on the basis of the semi-finished product, which can be freely purchased in a confectionery store or in a special section of supermarkets, where biscuits are baked simply behind the counter. If time allows and there is a desire, then you can make the preparation yourself ahead of time.

To prepare the sponge cake, you need fresh chicken eggs and sugar, which should be beaten thoroughly and for a long time with a blender or mixer at the highest speed. The mixture should turn into a strong, stable foam. It is considered ready if a fingerprint remains on the surface.

Next comes a very important moment, on which the quality of the biscuit depends. With great care, flour mixed with potato starch should be added to the whipped mixture. To prevent the egg-sugar foam from falling off, pour the flour through a fine sieve and mix with gentle, rare movements to evenly distribute the ingredients. The dough is immediately placed in a warm oven and, gradually increasing the temperature, baked until done. The baked biscuit must rest for twelve hours to fully “ripen”.

You can do it differently

Hedgehog cake can be prepared from sponge cake even after a few days, keeping the semi-finished product in the refrigerator. First you need to beat the buttercream, consisting of condensed milk, butter and cocoa powder. The sponge cake should be crushed into coarse crumbs. To do this, you can break it with your hands or grate it if the biscuit is already dry. To the resulting crumbs you can add a little cherry jam with berries, chopped walnuts, grated chocolate, cognac and a third of butter cream. The resulting mixture should be mixed until a viscous mass is obtained, from which you can sculpt a hedgehog figurine. For additional hydration, you can add condensed milk a little at a time.

Chocolate glaze is cooked from a mixture of butter, sour cream, sugar and cocoa until thickened over low heat, without boiling. Warm glaze should be applied to the hedgehog's face using a soft brush. The nose and eyes can be made from jelly beans, chocolate-covered peanuts or hazelnuts. The remaining buttercream is applied to the hedgehog using a pastry bag with a spiky star tip. The wonderful Hedgehog cake is ready to serve!

Second option. We use crunchy cookies

The composition of products for a confectionery dish can be changed in accordance with your taste preferences and financial capabilities. In order not to waste time baking a biscuit, you can simply take the most ordinary cookies - poppy seed crunch. The basis for the Hedgehog cake will be prepared from it, the recipe for which is very similar to the recipe

Cookies are easily crushed into small crumbs using a wooden rolling pin. Powdered sugar, cocoa powder, condensed milk, sour cream and softened butter are added to it. The products are mixed into a homogeneous confectionery mass, from which the body of the hedgehog is sculpted.

The finished figurine can be rolled in poppy seeds and decorated with peeled sunflower seeds, imitating needles. The last step is a painstaking process. In order for the DIY “Hedgehog” cake to turn out beautiful, the work must be done carefully and carefully.

Third option. “Maria” and “Zoological” as the basis for “Hedgehog”

It is worth considering another option for how to prepare a cake from Hedgehog cookies. In this case, the basis will be, for example, “Maria” or “Zoological”. Warm chocolate glaze, cooked over low heat from sugar and cocoa powder, is added to the mashed base. Raisins and softened butter are also added to the mixture.

From the resulting sweet mass you need to sculpt a hedgehog with a pointed muzzle and place it on a large dish. To avoid any difficulty cutting the cake when serving, line the dish with a sheet of parchment paper.

The final stage. Decor

Then the registration procedure begins. The Hedgehog cake is sprinkled with cocoa powder and decorated with peeled seeds. On the back of the hedgehog you can place fruits and mushrooms made from edible mastic. Such decorations are sold in confectionery stores, but you can make them yourself. The process of creating design elements is reminiscent of classes in creative circles, where various figures are sculpted from plasticine.

Mastic has a plastic consistency and is quite suitable for creating fruits or berries. The easiest way to make mastic is based on condensed milk. It is mixed with milk powder and powdered sugar. To add flavor, you can add a few drops of cognac and a couple of tablespoons of lemon juice. Using food coloring, mastic can be easily colored in all sorts of shades.

A no-bake cake is a simple and delicious solution to a difficult problem!

I bring to your attention a spectacular and very tasty children's Hedgehog cake. It has everything our kids love: soft chocolate sponge cake; bright, melt-in-your-mouth sponge cake made with yolks; butter cream with boiled condensed milk and butter cream, which acts as decoration. I came up with the idea of ​​decorating a homemade cake in the shape of a summer meadow into which a friendly family of hedgehogs came out especially for my daughter. She loves animals very much and was simply delighted with such a surprise. Surprise your kids too, and I’ll tell you in detail how to prepare this at home.

Now let's look at the list of ingredients. It turns out to be quite impressive, but we won’t need exotic products.

• butter - 100g;
• egg yolks - 7 pcs.;
• milk - 100 g;
• sugar - 100 g;
• vanillin - 1 pinch;
• flour - 150 gr;
• baking powder - 1 tsp. no slide.

• chicken eggs - 4 pcs.;
• flour - 100 gr;
• sugar - 120 gr;
• vanillin - a pinch;
• cocoa powder - 20 g;
• instant coffee - 1 tbsp;
• boiling water - 2 tbsp;
• baking powder - 1 tsp;
• refined vegetable oil.

Coffee impregnation:

• boiling water ‒ ½ tbsp.;
• instant coffee - 1 tbsp;
• sugar - 2 tbsp;
• cognac (optional) - 1-2 tbsp.

• cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 400 g;
• boiled condensed milk - 300 gr.

Green buttercream for decoration:

• cream with a fat content of 33% and above - 150 g;
• powdered sugar - 100 g or to taste;
• green food coloring.

• egg whites - 3 pcs.;
• sugar - 150 gr;
• butter - 200 gr;
• food colorings.

How to make Hedgehog cake at home

We start working on our future masterpieces by baking biscuits. Separately designed detailed step-by-step photo recipes can be found using the links in the list of ingredients. Let me note right away that both biscuits will require 11 eggs. We will use 7 of them completely, but there will still be 4 proteins left. If you, like me, don’t like unused leftovers after making a cake, you can use 2 eggs and 4 whites for a chocolate sponge cake. The result will be excellent, and in addition you will save two whole eggs.

To bake a chocolate sponge cake, use a mold with a diameter of 24 cm. Cool the workpiece and cut it into two layers.

We bake the butter sponge cake in a rectangular shape. I have a little less than the standard 30x40cm. Cut out a circle with a diameter of 24 cm from the layer. The remainder will be used to prepare hedgehogs.

Previously, I told in great detail how you can prepare a very tasty buttercream with boiled condensed milk. Link to go in the list of ingredients.

I additionally decided to soak the chocolate sponge cake. I prepared the simplest impregnation. I poured sugar and coffee into a glass, added boiling water, stirred and cooled. I always add cognac to the cooled liquid. I am deeply confident that 1 tablespoon of cognac for a whole cake will not affect the well-being of children in any way and will definitely not be addictive. 🙂 And you see for yourself and decide what to do according to your convictions.

Using a teaspoon or brush, evenly saturate the layers of chocolate biscuit from the cut side.

Place a tablespoon of cream on a dish and place the first layer of chocolate on top of it, cut side up. Spread half the cream over it.

Then, add the butter sponge cake, the remaining cream and the second chocolate layer, cut side down. Place the assembled cake in the refrigerator.

For the second cream, combine chilled cream with powdered sugar and a small amount of green food coloring. Beat everything until stable and dense. I strongly advise you NOT to use dyes for Easter eggs. It is strictly forbidden to eat them. If you want to make beautiful children's cakes, get safe dyes: dry powder or gel.

All that remains is to let the hedgehogs out for a walk and create comfortable conditions for them: plant flowers and grass in a fairy-tale meadow.

To do this, I used “star” type attachments, and “planted” the grass using the attachment of the same name, already known to you from making hedgehogs. We decorate the centers of the flowers with confectionery pearls. Don't forget to pay attention to the sides of the cake. Along the top and bottom, masking the unevenness, we plant borders using a “leaf” attachment or any other attachment of your choice. To complete the picture, we plant pink flowers between the borders.

Place the cake in the refrigerator overnight. In the morning we not only admire our masterpiece, but also photograph it from all sides and with everyone. 🙂

And now the most awaited moment has come - tasting.

I’m just sure that everyone will appreciate this soft, soaked and decorated with delicious cream Hedgehog sponge cake, and you will gain fame as a brilliant pastry chef.

Prepare beautiful and delicious children's birthday cakes at home. Delicious and beautiful homemade masterpieces to you!!!

This wonderful and sweet dessert, the Hedgehog Cake, will be a wonderful table decoration and will surely create a sensation! Its juiciness and softness are legendary, and its charming design makes you smile.

Ingredients

Hedgehog Cake Recipe

Beat chicken eggs with sugar (1.5 cups), add starch, flour and cocoa (2 tbsp). Knead the dough for. Grease a baking tray with a small amount of oil or line it with baking paper. Pour the dough onto it and place it in an oven preheated to 180–200 degrees for 20–25 minutes.

You can check the readiness of the dough using a toothpick: if it turns out to be dry when pierced, the sponge cake is ready. Cool the cake thoroughly. Beat butter with condensed milk (2/3 cans) using a mixer. Pour cocoa (3 tablespoons) into the resulting cream and beat thoroughly again. The mass should be quite fluffy.

Divide the cream into two parts (smaller and larger). Gently grate the cooled cake on a coarse grater. Finely chop the walnuts. Place jam, nuts, buttercream into a deep bowl, pour in cognac and add biscuit crumbs in small portions. Mix the resulting mass thoroughly until smooth.
Instead of just one cake, you can make a whole family of hedgehogs! Add the remaining condensed milk. Form a hedgehog from the biscuit mass and place it on a flat dish or mold. Prepare the glaze: to do this, place the remaining amount of butter, low-fat sour cream, sugar and cocoa in a saucepan - mix all ingredients and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved.

Let the glaze cool slightly. Paint the animal's face with dark glaze using a brush. Place the remaining amount of cream into a pastry syringe. Use light strokes (future needles) to decorate the entire remaining surface of the cake.

Make the hedgehog’s nose and eyes from dark jelly beans, and decorate the back of the animal with fresh berries. Place the resulting cake in the refrigerator for 2-4 hours until completely cooled and thoroughly soaked. Serve with tea, milk or unsweetened cocoa. Bon appetit!

Description

Cake "Hedgehog" will be a wonderful decoration for any table! There is nothing complicated in its preparation, the main thing is to stock up on all the necessary ingredients in advance, so that during the cooking process you do not suddenly discover that you are missing something.

You can experiment with the cake filling as you please. You can prepare the cream that you like best and it will not harm the cake at all.

As for decorating a cake in the shape of a hedgehog, you first need to work a little with the ingredients for it. Take the marzipan prepared in advance and make a small depression in the mass, then add the dye there and begin to knead thoroughly until the color is evenly distributed. If in the end the shade is not too saturated, you should repeat the procedure from the beginning.

To get several multi-colored pieces of marzipan, you need to repeat all the above steps with each of them separately. So, if you are planning to prepare a cake in the shape of a hedgehog with your own hands, then our master class with step-by-step photos will be an excellent assistant in the preparation process.

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Cooking steps

First we need to make a sponge cake. To do this, take a container in which it will be convenient to beat the ingredients, and break 4 eggs into it. After this, add sugar and begin to beat intensively until the mass becomes homogeneous and increases several times, acquiring a creamy hue.

After this, you can add the sifted flour and baking powder, continuing to beat. Then we transfer the dough into a mold, which we have previously greased with oil, and put it in the oven. It must be preheated to 200 degrees. The dough should be baked for 20-25 minutes.

You can check the readiness of the biscuit with your hand. It will be more reliable than a stick. To know if it is ready, you need to lightly press it with your hand. If after pressing there is a hole left, then you should wait a little longer.

When the sponge cake is ready, take it out of the oven and, depending on how tall it turns out, cut it into two or three parts, each of which needs to be greased with cream.

The cream is prepared very simply: melt the butter over low heat, put the condensed milk in a container in which it will be convenient to whip it. Then pour the condensed milk with melted butter and begin to beat thoroughly until the mass turns out to be light brown. After this, we begin preparing the decoration.



Make a sponge cake for the base of the cake decoration. The amount of ingredients depends on what size hedgehogs you want to make. The photo shows a sponge cake made from 8 eggs for a large hedgehog.



Using a small and convenient knife, cut out an oval shape - the basis for the sponge hedgehog.



Using scissors, trim the edges and “bevel” them slightly.



Now you need to lubricate the figure with cream. We make the cream from biscuit scraps. Add any of your favorite jam to them and mix to get a thick, homogeneous mass.



Using our hands, we give the figure a shape similar to a hedgehog and wait until the mass dries on it.



Now take the pre-painted marzipan, roll it out on the table and cut out a piece in a shape resembling a triangle.



We take the resulting piece of marzipan and carefully wrap it around the side of our hedgehog where its muzzle will be.



To make the spines, we need a pastry bag and a special nozzle for it, which looks like this.



We take a pastry bag, put cream in it and begin to make “thorns”, trying to place them as close to each other as possible so that there are no “bald patches”.



Now let's start making the legs and ears. For this we need sugar mastic and marzipan. Cut out small semicircles and give them the shape of ears.



We make the paws in the shape of a “droplet” and use a small knife to cut two short strips.



The eyes and nose can be made from dragees or cream, depending on your imagination. We decided to make them from mastic and marzipan, which we painted in advance.



Now we take a thin brush, food coloring and remember our drawing lessons in elementary school. Carefully draw a mouth for the hedgehog, tint the eyes, nose, and use a wide brush to make red cheeks.



We cover the cake with mastic or coat it with cream on all sides, place our hedgehog on it, let the cake brew and the treat is ready! Now you can safely treat your guests and household members to it! Children will be delighted with this dessert!



Bon appetit!

The recipe and step-by-step photos of an interesting children's cake in the shape of a hedgehog were sent to us by Lyuba Shcherbakova from Saratov. There are many recipes pastries and cake Hedgehog"and this one is fast cake getting ready from cookies, condensed milk And sour cream no baking.

Recipe for Hedgehog cake made from cookies and condensed milk, ingredients:

• cookies (any crumbly) – 1 kg;
• condensed milk – 2 cans;
• sour cream 30% fat – 200 ml;
• powdered sugar – 200 g;
• softened butter – 150 g;
• cocoa powder – 3 tablespoons;
• sunflower seeds (hulled) – 100 g,
• culinary poppy – 4 tablespoons;
• chocolate covered peanuts (or any chocolate dragees) – 3 pcs.;

how to make a cake from cookie crumbs (step by step photo recipe)

1. We will assemble the hedgehog cake from cookie crumbs and cream, although a classic sponge cake is also perfect for these purposes. The cookies need to be crushed into fine crumbs using a food processor, a blender with a bowl-jug, a mortar and pestle, or simply wrapped in a bag and beaten with a rolling pin. Use the method you prefer.

2. Mix the cookie crumbs in a deep cup with powdered sugar.

3. Add cocoa powder there

and pour in condensed milk.

4. Butter should be softened, not melted. Add it to the bowl with the cookie crumbs and mix. It is most convenient to knead the cookie dough with your hands, like minced meat.

5. During the kneading process, add sour cream to the Hedgehog dough,

making it a homogeneous mass for modeling.

6. Using the resulting mass, we form the body of a hedgehog with our hands and roll it in dry poppy seeds.

7. Place the blank for the Hedgehog cake on a plate, all that remains is to lay out the needles of their peeled seeds for the hedgehog

8. Make the hedgehog’s nose and eyes from chocolate dragee and the cake is ready!

This quick “Hedgehog” cake made from cookies and condensed milk is very interesting to prepare with children for some celebration or children’s holiday, for example, a child’s birthday, and maybe take part in the children’s competition “Crafting with Mom” with such a cake. .

Happy creativity!

Best regards, Anyuta, and thanks to Lyuba for the recipe!